In current generation where penetration rate of mobile devices is high, we see many including young children often using mobile devices while travelling, in school or even before bedtime. A fact sheet published on Zone'in advised infants aged 0-2 years should not have any exposure to technology, 3-5 years be restricted to one hour per day, and 6-18 years restricted to 2 hours per day.

Installed FortiClient recently but the challenge in disabling the application/service from running automatically on every start-up annoyed me. Attempt to stop 'FortiClient Service Scheduler' only return 'Parameter is incorrect' error message.

An article on Technet help solve my trouble. To stop FortiClient from starting automatically, try the following:Shut down FortiClient from the system tray.Run net stop fortishield on command prompt.Run msconfig.On msconfig, switch to the Services tab. Clear the FortiClient Service Scheduler check box and click Apply.Run services.msc on command prompt to open up show all available services.Look for FortiClient Service Scheduler. Switch Startup type to Manual.Restart your computer.
FortiClient should not be running automatically the next time round. Hope it helps.

Talk about cross-cultural communication, a lot of people have been confusing themselves about what does it mean when an Indian shakes his head. Someone actually put up a video explaining the different types of head shakes are and their meaning.

If you are a developer working on Microsoft (or perhaps Linux since Microsoft is open-sourcing its .NET Core) platform, it is likely that you would have heard Microsoft releasing a rich featured edition of Visual Studio at absolutely ZERO cost. The new edition of the FREE Visual Studio is the Community Edition.

So what are the differences between the new Visual Studio Community Edition and the usual Express Editions? Before I begin, I would like to state that the Community Edition is in fact a Professional Edition but re-packaged and distributed at NO cost. The two main differences between Visual Studio Community Edition and the Express Editions are:Visual Studio Express Editions do not allow users to use extensions (aka. plugins).Visual Studio Express Editions are targeting specific platforms e.g. Web, Windows and Windows Desktop apps.
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Very often when we think of History, we will associate it with boring. But why schools are still offering History as a subject? What exactly is History and what are the benefits of knowing the past? The following short video perfectly address this.

In light of multiple cases whereby payments were attempted with coins amounting in thousands, the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has released a statement on the legal tender limit for coins of denomination.

According to the Currency Act, the legal tender limit for coins of denomination:Below 50-cents is S$2 per denomination.For 50-cent coins, the limit is S$10.There are no limits for S$1 coins.
A payee has no obligation to accept coins beyond the legal tender limits set out in the Currency Act.

Google has been working on a new bookmark manager for Chrome. This upcoming bookmark manager is now on the Chrome Web Store as an extension before it is integrated into Chrome by default. This new bookmark manager extension looks beautiful but it does have its own shortfall for now e.g. inability to sort bookmarks by title.

So what if you wished to uninstall this new bookmark manager? As far as I know, you cannot remove this extension from chrome://extensionsbecause the extension is not listed at all! Do follow the below steps for the removal of this extension:

Type chrome://flags on the address bar.Search for Enable Enhanced Bookmarks option.Disable it.Close and restart Chrome.Type chrome://extensions on the address bar. You should see the bookmark manager extension now.Remove the bookmark manager extension.Hope it helps.

When a user attempts to follow a broken link or mistypes a url on a website, the user will often be redirected to a typical friendly "404 Not Found" web page so he knows what has happened, instead of throwing some ugly error message.

One way to enhance the experience would be to guess where the visitor intended to go and suggest that page or shows a list of possible pages. An article by the Smashing Magazine describes an approach that makes use of Google's Custom Search API for this purpose. Before embarking onto the implementing it on production, please do note that the free tier for this API has a limit of 100 calls per day.

The number of websites moving to the more secured HTTPS protocol is ever increasing especially after recent many web security compromises. But is there a need for HTTPS even if your website is purely only content? Engineers from the Google team feel YES.

I have heard and seen clients wanting to include just everything, say product catalogue, events registrations, etc., from their website onto a mobile app. Each of the features itself are with complicated logics and workflows.

Question we should be asking now is whether to bundle all features into one single app or to split them into multi apps so each serve its own purpose. Mobile users are very much different from desktop users.To deliver the best mobile app experience, we need to make sure mobile users can complete a single mission easily and quickly.

Ever wondered how your text will look like on all of your installed fonts? One handy way is using this free online tool wordmark.it. Simply type in the text to preview and hit on a button. It is just so easy.

When sending a HTML email out, we often used some common HTML tags e.g. <br>, <font> and so on. An article, Gmail's HTML Tag Whitelist, on Quip publish a list of HTML tags known to be supported as well as unsupported by Gmail.

If you ever need to do some reinstalling of Windows on your laptop but would like to backup the list of installed programs before formatting, the following will be useful.Start Command Prompt.Type wmic on command prompt to run Windows Management Instrumentation Command-line tool.Type /output:C:\InstallList.txt product get name,version on command prompt. This will generate a list of all installed programs and save it in C:\InstallList.txt as a text file. Do note this may take some time depending on the number of installed programs you may have.
» Generate a List of Installed Programs in Windows | Help Desk Geek

Online technical tutorial, tuts+, published a 3-parts introduction on Xamarin. Xamarin is a cross-platform software solution using C# codebase to develop one single implementation for Android, iOS and Windows apps.

Responsive web design with pages and images resized and aligned properly for mobile view will not be complete if the images downloaded are the full desktop version. For better design, do consider using element. Read more on the picture element here.

Popular Android forum, XDA Developers, wrote a thread explaining some of the errors encountered on Google Play. Yes, they may get annoying and may caused one to be helpless. With the feedback from many fellow Android users, the forum thread serves to provide with an always updated knowledgebase.

A cheat sheet on Linux commands, organised into 13 categories, should get you up to mark in using Linux operating system. The cheat sheet is available at LinOxide in PDF format and as one detailed reference guide all on a single long page. If you prefer visual, the following image may be helpful too.

The debate over whether to implement the now trendy side navigation drawer (a.k.a. hamburger menu) or stick to traditional tabbed design for a mobile website or app can go a long way. An article published on TheNextWeb summarised just when using side navigation is relevant.My take-away from all of this is that if most of the user experience takes place in a single view, and it’s only things like user settings and options that need to be accessed in separate screens, then keeping the main UI nice and clean by burying those in a side menu is the way to go.
On the other hand, if your app has multiple views that users will engage with somewhat equally, then side navigation could be costing you a great deal of your potential user engagement, and interaction with those part of the app accessed via the side menu.
» UX designers: Side drawer navigation could be costing you half your user engagement | TheNextWeb

Microsoft just unveiled Windows 8.1 Update 1. New features include an improved taskbar, better task switching, and Start Screen tweaks that focus on mouse and keyboard users. Opened applications will also come with title bar. This update certainly makes Windows 8 more "Windows".

From 1 Apr 2014 onwards, Singapore's FREE Wi-Fi initiative Wireless@SG will be enhanced to allow SIM-based authentication. This is on top of the existing non SIM-based authentication, one that requires connecting to a SSID through Wi-Fi and then doing a web-based authentication.

Infamous Edward Snowden, former contractor for the National Security Agency (NSA) and whistleblower who leaked thousands and thousands of classified American National Agency documents that had led to global outrage over U.S. privacy pry on all other countries. Of course, this had also led to Snowden having to base himself in Russia to avoid being detained by the U.S.

Google launches add-ons to its Docs and Sheets apps. With add-ons written by developers, users would now be able to add in even more features in their documents and spreadsheets e.g. easily send documents as emails to contacts, create Avery address labels and name badges from Google spreadsheet data, adding track changes and approval workflow, etc.

Ellen DeGeneres took a selfie together with several stars at the Oscars 2014 and tweet it online right away with a Samsung sponsored Note 3 phone. The tweet garnered the most number of retweets Of all time beating Obama's 2012 record.

The Chinese Almanac, also known as the Tung Shu, not only tell us the auspicious and inauspicious dates, it also reveals information on astrology, codes and symbols which includes the secrets regarding moles on your face and what they mean depending on which part of your face they appear.

Several huge boxes coated with black-coloured temperature sensitive ink that will disappear in higher temperature were arranged to be delivered by its competitors like TNT and UPS. As calculated, the black ink disappeared while being transported in delivery trucks, revealing big-sized imprint boasting that "DHL is faster". Without much of a choice, the courier guy continued with the usual delivery service but definitely with some awkwardness.

Dormi is a new Android app that can convert your old or existing Android devices into smart baby monitors or remote speakers. Watch the video below for a quick introduction to Dormi or you may just simply head to Dormi website.

The Three Laws of Robotics (often shortened to The Three Laws or Three Laws) are a set of rules devised by the science fiction author Isaac Asimov. The rules were introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although they had been foreshadowed in a few earlier stories. The Three Laws are:

A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.A robot must obey the orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.
» Three Laws of Robotics | Wikipedia

I came across this BBQScreen app few months back and I thought it worth a mention to blog it. With BBQScreen, it is possible to share your Android screen right onto your PC or laptop. What you need to do is to install the app on your Android and also on your PC or laptop. BBQScreen support Windows, Linux and Mac OS. What's most important is that it is absolutely free of charge!

jQuery has been widely used in several websites to make use of available libraries. Though the API itself is already optimised, it is still possible to enhance its performance.

Here are 15 tips and tricks by the Web Revisions.Always Use the Latest jQuery VersionAlways load CDN-hosted copy of jQueryAlways use ID as Selector Instead of Classes or NameAlways Cache jQuery Objects before useAlways use Tags Before ClassesUse ChainingJust give your Selectors a ContextStoring DataPreloading imagesTry to make code simpler using group queriesjQuery Lazy LoadingAlways Return FalseUse join() for Longer StringsTry to avoid DOM ManipulationCheck if an Element Exists

If there is a piece of code that is intended to be loaded after a webpage finishes loading, one efficient method as recommended by Google is to use listeners. An article on feedthebot illustrates the Google's method. The following code should be placed in your HTML just before the </body> tag. Also, all code blocks supposed to be delayed are to be placed in an external js file (defer.js in this case).